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This time 3 more albums with nice gum papers counted and revised.
Album #5:
super cars
ATAKA Turbo #41 is very hard to find item.
ataka turbo #41 super prize balloon
Total: 591 items
This post will have some additional information to mertsan konvoy series, already posted here, and I do not title it as another post in FAQ series about gum. So as I mentioned in earlier post, I will show some covers from mertsan series. This show that gum series is not right called as mertsan, because it has different, and corrent name, konvoy. Mertsan is just a producer, as Kent is producer of turbo gum.
Here you go. It is believed that this cover belongs to 20.000 Daca or IMpreuna series, and released at year 1995.
Konvoy
Hi there. Let’s start new series of posts, where I would like to give some more details about one or another gum series, sub series, bonus series and such things. And let’s start with Mertsan series. In first part of FAQ about Mertsan, I will show how those series should be divided. If someone is not yet familiar with it, there are 4 different collectible series of this gum, commonly called Mertstan. In second part I will show you some gum covers of Mertsan, and we will see that this series have another official title, Konvoy. But this will be next time, today let’s talk about inside papers.
As should be known, there are 4 different collectible series of Mertsan:
Mertsan 20.000 Daca – most common series. If you could find that someone have some Merstan for exchange, 90% of them, if not all, will be from this series. It is possible to collect them all, just few numbers are more hard to get than others. Why it should be called this way? Look at the picture, there are 3 columns on the top, first have numbers part of title, 3rd column have first word Daca. And we get full title, Mertsan 20.000 1-50 Daca. As in first 2 series, those with number 20.000, have both 1-50, so we can skip this number.
Mertsan 20.000 IMpreuna – less common series. Pictures same as in Daca series, just we have different word in 3rd column, and pictures itself is harder to get. Also for some reasons not everybody who collect 20.000 Daca, wants to collect also 20.000 IMpreuna.
After completing turbo sport Russian series, already few people asked me the same thing:
what you gonna do when all be collected?
My answer was:
turbo 1-50, turbo power, turbo covers.. long way till that. after finishing bi-bib, lazer center, kobra blue, mertsan 4 series and TAXI 1-170, i will think about.
Here I will post my extended answer to this.
I think you all might know what all those titles stands for, and what series it represents. But just in case you don’t, or maybe 4 different mertsan series seems confusing to you, I will explain. And this wish list somehow represents what I like to collect after turbo.
Turbo 1-50
Legendary turbo series, old and rare and painfully hard to get. I have completed first half of this series, and now have 26 different. Still 24 to go. It is possible to collect this series, but it need some very good luck to do that. I know it happens sometimes, and I hope it will repeat few times more. Current missing list can be found here http://need.turbogum.com/#the-turbo
Turbo power
It’s stickers, well know by it’s name turbo power. Originally made by Kent company in mid 90′s. Who do collect turbo papers, those want to collect power stickers as well. Hard to get item, not so rare, just not very common. I do happen to have some of them for exchange if anybody interested. There are two types of them, original Power numbers 1-259, and Turbo Power, numbered 148-259, those pictures are the same as Power stickers. Missing list here http://need.turbogum.com/power-stickers Still have many to finish, as any as I could find. There are still few missing stickers waiting for me, so missing list can change in near future.
Turbo covers
I think i’m the only (correct me if I’m wrong) so much interested in turbo covers, that I have made dedicated website for them, that also acts like my missing list: http://covers.turbogum.com I have found many of my missing covers, time by time, and there are still many covers left to find. As always, when you are closer to the end, there are much more difficult to get what you need. If anybody have something from my missing, give me know.
Bi-Bib
Nice and cool cars from the 70′s. One of my favorite (you might guess) gum series. I have some story told about my bi-bib gum papers here, and I’m now missing about 10 items to this series http://need.turbogum.com/auto-moto#bi-bib
Lazer with center text
This lazer series, featuring various war machines, happen to be somehow rare, and not so ofter you can find them. They are just cool, nothing special. I’m collecting them just for fun, and to finish them. How they look like I did show here and my current missing list of this series can be found here http://need.turbogum.com/auto-moto#lazer-center-text Missing count: 17.
Kobra blue text
Same thing as with Lazer. We have Kobra, and we have bonus blue Kobra. Black simple Kobra is collection of 100 items. Blue bonus Kobra is collection of 50 items. Missing list here http://need.turbogum.com/auto-moto#kobra-blue Missing count: have almost half series.
Mertsan 4 series
Mertsan 20.000 Daca 1-50, Mertsan 20.000 IMpreuna 1-50, Mertsan 250.000 1-50. Mertsan 250.000 1-66. Anybody have some questions? Missing list somewhere around here: http://need.turbogum.com/auto-moto#mertsan-20-000-daca
TAXI 1-170
This series is one of those rare and super cool. Also expensive and hard to find. I should get some of them soon in few weeks, and I will write more info about them. Missing list here, and still many many to collect.
So here’s what I will be collecting for ages, and I do not think that ALL will be collected someday. Collecting is more fun in progress rather than completed result. So happy collecting.
end of last month was productive from collecting point of view to me, and recently i received letters with stuff, that was sent to me. here in this topic, i will try to shortly describe what i have got new for my gum stuff collection.
turbo 2003 rus
power stickers
bonus series
